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479 U.S. 1046

Bell v. Texas

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided January 12, 1987

Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1987-01-12

Relies on Boyd v. State · State v. Carter · Robinson v. State

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Decided 1987-01-12

How this case has been cited

Cited by 121 later decisions — most recently December 2010 · most notably Dowthitt v. State (1996), State v. Webb (1989)

16 federal appellate · 2 district · 85 state decisions

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Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.

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